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                         JeffNEWS, July 12, 1994
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THE JEFFERSON 2000 FUND
Children's Rehabilitation Hospital Receives Philadelphia Foundation Grant
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   The tiniest, most vulnerable patients at Children's Rehabilitation
Hospital will benefit from a $23,000 grant from two trusts administered
by The Philadelphia Foundation. The funds will make possible the
purchase of several state-of-the-art cardiorespiratory monitors for
infants in the hospital's nursery. 

   "This more sophisticated equipment will be a most welcome addition
because it will allow us to monitor our patients more efficiently than
ever," said Stephen J. McGeady, MD, medical director of the 40-bed
hospital located within Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Ford Road
Campus.

   The William McK. Bayard and James Bayard Memorial Fund and the Lilian
Guthrie Fund have lent their support to Children's Rehabilitation
Hospital through this $23,000 grant, awarded annually for more than two
decades.

   Patients at Children's Rehabilitation Hospital range in age from
birth to 18 years of age and have medical conditions that include
problems of prematurity, birth defects, head and spinal-cord injury,
cerebral palsy, asthma, diabetes and burns. The hospital's friendly,
neighborhood atmosphere invites family participation and helps children
cope more easily with illness or disability. Each child is treated by an
interdisciplinary team of health professionals.

   The Philadelphia Foundation, founded in 1918, guides income from
individual and family trusts to nonprofit organizations in the Delaware
Valley.


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